Priority for AV budget:
V: Display quality -> calibration of display -> source quality
A: Room sound treatment -> Receiver/Amp quality -> Speakers quality
Bad calibration = no point in picking premium sources
Poor sound in room = no point in wasting money on higher end speakers (unless you are trying to hear more clarity in your reflections)
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People that know what's the best, go here for tips and help calibrating and setting up the home theater.
https://www.avforums.co
People that don't care, don't bother with this. Above your pay grade.
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I had issues with each of the other brands which I got tired of.
In almost a year I have not had ONE issue with either 820 or 420.
If you have a projector, Panny is pretty much a must have because of that "optimizer"
It's unfortunate but true that Arrrgh matey version are actually better playback systems than the disc. They do full bitrate as well, so there's no quality loss vs disc version.
But of course the Disc has collectible value. arrghmatey does not.
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Disc version is far less compressed. The streamed versions are blotchy and much less detailed (blurry).
The economics works out such that the stream services are motivated to give you as little as possible, whereas the discs really only come in 2 sizes, 50gb for short movies and 100gb for long movies.
You are better of buying snagging something one of the LG 4k player refurbs for $99 ish that pop up time and again
Then spend the extra $300 you saved on a better TV/Display
Its going to make a LOT more difference than a 4K player....and then you will also enjoy a better picture for the majority of the time( for most people) when you are not watching 4K discs
I have a LG DV UHD player to play my disks. I have a shield to play my rips from my NAS. There is nothing wrong with using a Shield, but it is a slightly different use case. I prefer Kodi, but I use Plex when I need to play DV rip. Everything has it's purpose.
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The only way I see physical media decreasing in the future is if we make the transition to 8K….I don't think we can put a movie in 8K on a disk at this point, that's a ton of data.
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